They have encored his effusion, and do you hear?—he is singing it over again.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

"You are a very pranky little sing," Mr. Cinatti said, flourishing the Westminster Gazette before her eyes, "and den you want us not to believe dat you wrote dis."
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

he exclaimed; adding: “Do you know where I should go?
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Now you may observe a man until you are tired, and then you may begin and observe him over again: you may photograph him and his surroundings: you may spend years in studying what he eats and drinks: you may search out what his uncles died of, and the price he pays for his hats, and—know nothing at all about him.
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

However, the door jarred open on a dead sort of spring; and he closed it behind him as he entered a dull yard, soon brought to a close by another dead wall, where an attempt had been made to train some creeping shrubs, which were dead; and to make a little fountain in a grotto, which was dry; and to decorate that with a little statue, which was gone.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Since she came to Montegnac no one has ever seen her eat, and do you know why?
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

“Gentlemen,” he exclaimed angrily, “did you ever see such extraordinary behaviour in your lives?
— from Glyn Severn's Schooldays by George Manville Fenn

Here is your uncle, I’ll tell him everything, and do you go and pack what things you need.”
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall